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Ready-made blended learning from Course Source and Enterprise Study

Learning NewsEnterprise Study Ltd

Course Source, the e-learning service provider to training companies and Enterprise Study, the developer of the ESP training administration system, have formed a partnership to provide training companies with a ready-made platform to administer and schedule classroom training with e-learning.

Course Source and Enterprise Study have formed a partnership to exploit synergies in marketing strategy, by combining both their technologies to form a single, ready-made, blended learning platform for training providers. The platform allows training providers to select learning content and components and combine them with live classroom courses - just for the precise period of a customer's learning programme.

Course Source's content service allows training providers to select timed enrolments across many of the e-learning market's leading content libraries, including the NETG, Element K, Video Arts, e-Lab, SkillSoft, Advance Learning ECDL, Self Test Software and TeckChek libraries.

Enterprise Study's ESP training administration system provides on line course cataloguing, event scheduling and e-commerce functionality for classroom training operations. ESP's link with Course Source now enables training centres to easily select e-learning products to blend in with their live events and manage the whole business through a single training administration application.

Mike Leeson, commercial director, Course Source: "In the past buyers usually had to sign up to an e-learning library for a full year. This is not in reality how training is managed and delivered, so we've reversed the process, allowing our customers to use the e-learning content they require just for the period they need it for. This is particularly interesting for IT training companies that have been finding it difficult to blend technologies that are sold like pieces of software, with traditional training courses, which are sold as events."

Richard Williams, sales director, Enterprise Study: "Training providers are faced with the challenge of blending the new types of e-learning products into their offerings, but without adapting their business management systems the sales and operations functions tend to struggle to provide a seamless service blend. The Course Source platform combined with ESP helps training companies to overcome this."


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About Course-Source
Course-Source provides a hosted online learning solution to training companies and content providers. Their unique approach incorporates an enrolment based pricing model. They currently work with leading training companies such as Video Arts, Spring, Azlan, and Pitman Training Group. Course-Source Limited, 70/74 City Road, London, EC1Y 2BJ, +44 (0) 207 689 9700.

For further information contact:
Mike Leeson
Telephone: +44 (0) 207 689 9695
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: http://www.course-source.net